Telephone attachment.



N. B. PARSONS & A. BEUTLER.

TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAE.11,1905.

908,490. Patented Jan.5,1909.

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TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT.

APPLIUATIOH FILED MAR 11 190 Q8 40, Patented Jan. 5, 1 909.

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NEWELL B. PARSONS Am) ALBERT BEUTLER, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIs'AssIGNoRs TO BELDEN MANUFACTURING COMPANX, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

TELEPHONE -ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Application filed March 11, 1905. Serial No. 249,546.

Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

To all whom it may concern: 9

Be it known that we, NEWELL B. PARSONS and ALBERT BEUTLER, citizens of the United States of America, and residentsof Chicago, county of Cook, and State oflllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Telephone Attachments, of which the follow ing is a specification. V l

Our invention lies within the class of devices adapted to be attached to the structure of telephone instruments, and has for its particular purpose the providing of a separate and retaining means for awriting pad and conveniences for holding a pen or pencil, the general form and character of the attachment being arranged to the end of enabling it to be attached to telephone instruments of various forms and dimensions.

The whole structure is designed with a view to simplicity-and economy of manufacture. j

Our invention is; illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-- 7 Figure 1 is a plan view of the com )lete attachment; Fig. 2, a front elevation ig. 3, a

rear view of the clip and its mounting; Fig. 4

a plan of ,a part of the base with the clip removed; Fig. 5 a perspective view of one of the jaws; Fig. 6, a perspective view of one of the nuts Fig. 7 a'sectional view showing the jaw adjustment, and Fig. 8 a sectional view of the attachment as. adjusted to telephone shelf narrower than the width of the base of the attachment.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several figures.

Referring to Fig. 1, the complete device is shown in plan, attached to the shelf of a telephone of the desk or cabinet form, in which the shelf is of a considerable width, exceeding in width the width of the base plate of the pad-holding attachment.

1 is this shelf, 2 is the base of the attach ment; 13 and 14 are the jaws by which the base is clamped to the shelf, and 5, the clip for holding a writing tablet. single sheet of iron, mild steel or other suitable material, capable of being formed by means of dies or similar tools, with a minimum of simple and inexpensive operations. We prefer that one of these operations shall be to mold the edge of the base into a sightly form, as shown best at 6 in Fig. 3; and in the process of forming the base, three holes are pierced as shown at 7, 8 and 9; a groove is The base 2 is a 1 formed at 10 in the upper surface of the base plate, forming at the same time a rib on the under surface-of the base, and parallel to the lower edge of the base, and by a cutting and bending-up process two lugs 11 and 12 are formed of the stock of the base plate itself.

The object of the holes 7, 8 and 9, is to enable the jaws 13 and 14 to be attached to the base, and in an adjustable manner. In the position shown in Fig. 1, the jaw 13 is attached at the hole 7, and the jaw 14 at the hole 9. The holes 7 and 9 being farthest a art, the jaws are enabled to embrace a s ielf of maximum width. be attached at the hole 7, and the other at the hole 8, a shelf of minimum width could be embraced. But the adjustment possible by choice of a certain air of holes is not the only one possible. The jaws 13 and 14 are identical in form, and each is provided with a slot 15, best shown in Fig. 5. A screw 16 passes throughthe base; the slot of the jaw 13, or 14, engages a nut 18, best shown in Figs. 6 and 7. This nut is threaded to re ceive the screw, and in addition has formed from its material, a lug 17; this lug is of such width as to enable it to engage the slot 15 in the jaw 13 or 14., and for this purpose the lug reaches up from below, but is not long enough'to encounter the under side of the base 2, and thus be clam in a position causing the screw to bin final tightening of the screw 16, the jaws 13 and 14, associated with the selected holes in the base 2, may be pressed into engagement with the sides of the shelf. When the screws shelf in such a way as to hold the attachment firmly in place.

' reference to Fig. 4 it will be seen that the l iigs 11 and 12 are formed from the stock of the base by a cutting and bending process the-sheet forming the base, and with a maxi-- mum simplicity of operations. ,The lugs thus formed are bent up at right angles to the base, and in the same series of operations are perforated to enable them to receive the pin 19. The clip 5 is formed of one place, being adapted to engage the writing pad in the fa mihar manner, and to release the ad from tge spring pressure applied by the c ip, when t e is pressed upon by the hand; The pin 19, engaging two wings formed from the stock are turned home, the jaws will embrace the If one of the jaws Just before a I involving no removal of useful material from i opposite end from that engaging the pad -surface of the shelf.

other, the result desired 1s that the clip shall be given a tendency to press against the base with such force as will accomplish the hold ing of the writing pad. From the stock of the clip also two tongues, 21 are cut, and bent outward to enable a pen or pencil to be supported.

The groove 10, pressed into the base 2 and being at the same time a groove uponthe upper surface of the base and a rib upon the .under surface of the base, serves the double purpose of 'su porting a pencil and prevent mg it from ro ling from the attachment if it is in an inclined position, and of assisting in holding the attachment in place upon the shelf of certain types of telephones. Most of such instruments as have inclined shelves are provided with a molding along the front edge, projecting upward slightly from the plane The rib formed by the roove 10 will engage such a molding, rendermg easy the placing of the attachment with its sides parallel to and at right angles to straight lines of the instrument.

In Fig. 8 the device-is shown attached to a familiar form of wall tele hone, thedownwardly projecting lug or ri 10 formed in the under side of the base plate serving to engage the molding 25 which in the ordinary use of the telephone serves as a pencil retaining ledge. In this case, the attachment of our device to the tele hone shelf is made in the manner already (escribed, except that the slotted clip 13 is attached by a screw extendin through the hole 8 instead of through the ho e 9 as shown in Fig. 1, and that the points of contact between the base of the attachment and the telephone shelf consist of rib 10x and the upper edge of the -base plate, instead of consisting of the two edges of the base plate as would be the case with the Wide shelf shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is:

1. In an attachment for telephones, a metal base; wings formed from and integral with said base; a pad-retaining clip pivoted on said wings; clamping jaws slidably attached to said metal base; and a rib sta1..ped in said metal base, constituting at the same time a pencil groove on the u per surface of said base and a projecting rib parallel with one of the edges of said base on the underside of said base, substantially as described.

2. In an attachment for telephones, a sheet-metal base with wings formed therefrom; a spring-depressed paper-holding clip pivoted on said wing; slidable clamping jaws for attaching-said base to a support; screw clamps ada ted to retain said jaws through holes in sai base; a plurality of holes in said base ada tin said jaws to be varied in position; an a epression in said base forming at the same time a groove in the upper surface for su porting a pencil and a rib on the under surface for assisting the attachment and retention of the base'on its support, substantially as described.

I Signed by us' at Chicago, county of Cook and State of Illinois, in the presence of two witnesses.

NEW'ELL B. PARSONS. ALBERT BEUTLER. 

